Virginia Delegate Dan Helmer [D]

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
VA	HR837	Pass	Celebrating the life of Officer Gunther Paul Hashida. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-08-09 Bill text as passed House (HR837ER)
VA	HR770	Pass	Commending Ciao Osteria. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-08-05 Bill text as passed House (HR770ER)
VA	HR768	Pass	Commending Manna Bistro and Bakery. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-08-05 Bill text as passed House (HR768ER)
VA	HR769	Pass	Commending the Honorable Carlos Hopkins. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-08-05 Bill text as passed House (HR769ER)
VA	HR766	Pass	Celebrating the life of Raymond James Foder. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-08-05 Bill text as passed House (HR766ER)
VA	HR823	Pass	Commending Colonel Jaime A. Areizaga Soto. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-08-05 Bill text as passed House (HR823ER)
VA	HR775	Pass	Commending Michael Paul Williams. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-08-04 Bill text as passed House (HR775ER)
VA	HR758	Pass	Celebrating the life of Master Officer Woodrow W. Dowdy III. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-08-04 Bill text as passed House (HR758ER)
VA	HB1899	Pass	Sunset of coal tax credits. Sunsets the Coal Employment and Production Incentive Tax Credit and Coalfield Employment Enhancement Tax Credit after tax year 2021 and prohibits the allocation of such credits on and after January 1, 2022. The bill provid... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553)
VA	HB2174	Pass	State-facilitated IRA savings program; establishment. Directs the governing board of the Virginia College Savings Plan (the Board) to establish a state-facilitated individual retirement account (IRA) savings program (the Program). The Board shall adm... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0556)
VA	HB1992	Pass	Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearms following conviction for assault and battery of a family or household member; penalties. Prohibits a person who has been convicted of assault and battery of a family or household member, as defined ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0555)
VA	HB2113	Pass	Sealing of criminal records; penalties. Establishes a process for the automatic sealing of police and court records, defined in the bill, for certain convictions, deferred dispositions, and acquittals and for offenses that have been nolle prossed or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-07 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0542)
VA	HB2047	Pass	Criminal proceedings; consideration of mental condition and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Permits the admission of evidence by the defendant concerning a defendant's mental condition at the time of an alleged offense, including expert ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-07 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540)
VA	HB2327	Pass	Virginia Public Procurement Act; requirement to pay prevailing wage; transportation infrastructure projects. Clarifies, for purposes of the requirement under certain circumstances to pay the prevailing wage rate for work performed on public works con... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-07 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0549)
VA	HB2040	Pass	Unemployment compensation; failure to respond; continuation of benefits; repayment of overpayments. Provides that when a claimant has had a determination of initial eligibility for unemployment benefits, as determined by the issuance of compensation ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-07 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0539)
VA	HB2133	Pass	Issuance of writ of vacatur for victims of commercial sex trafficking. Establishes a procedure for victims of sex trafficking to file a petition of vacatur in circuit court to have certain convictions vacated and the police and court records expunged... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-07 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543)
VA	HB2312	Pass	Marijuana; legalization; retail sales; penalties. Eliminates criminal penalties for simple possession of up to one ounce of marijuana by persons 21 years of age or older, modifies several other criminal penalties related to marijuana, and imposes lim... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-07 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0551)
VA	HB2207	Pass	Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, correctional officers, and reg... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-07 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0547)
VA	HB2161	Pass	Active military or a military spouse; prohibits discrimination in public accommodations, etc. Prohibits discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and housing on the basis of a person's military status, defined as a member of the uniformed ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-31 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477)
VA	HB1985	Pass	Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for COVID-19. Establishes a presumption that COVID-19 causing the death or disability of health care providers is an occupational disease compensable under the Workers' Compensation Act. The bill p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-31 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0507)
VA	HB1888	Pass	Absentee voting; procedural and process reforms; availability and accessibility reforms; penalty. Makes various reforms to absentee voting processes and procedures, including those related to availability and accessibility. The bill requires certain ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-31 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text reprinted (CHAP0471)
VA	HB2020	Pass	Nomination of candidates for elected offices; restrictions on nomination method selected by political party. Provides that a method of nomination for elected office may not be selected if such method will have the practical effect of excluding partic... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-31 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0474)
VA	HB1811	Pass	Virginia Public Procurement Act; preference for energy-efficient and water-efficient goods. Provides that in the course of procuring goods, if a state agency receives two or more bids for products that are Energy Star certified, meet Federal Energy M... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-31 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469)
VA	HJR555	Pass	Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters and the right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution shall have the fundament right t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-31 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0516)
VA	HB2004	Pass	Virginia Freedom of Information Act; law-enforcement criminal incident information; criminal investigative files. Adds criminal investigative files, defined in the bill, relating to a criminal investigation or proceeding that is not ongoing, also def... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-31 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0483)
VA	HB2001	Pass	Building standards for certain state and local buildings. Requires that any executive branch agency or institution or locality entering the design phase for the construction of a new building greater than 5,000 gross square feet in size or the renova... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-31 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0473)
VA	HB2030	Pass	Neonicotinoid pesticides; study. Directs the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to study the Beekeeper Pollinator Protection Plan and voluntary best management practices for the purpose of proposing improvements to communication between ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-31 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458)
VA	HB2124	Pass	Department of Medical Assistance Services; testing for, treatment of, and vaccination against COVID-19; emergency services. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services, during a public health emergency related to COVID-19 declared by the U.... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-31 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476)
VA	HB2332	Pass	Commonwealth Health Reinsurance Program. Requires the State Corporation Commission (the Commission) to establish, upon approval of a state innovation waiver request pursuant to § 1332 of the Affordable Care Act, a reinsurance program, known as t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-31 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0480)
VA	HB1889	Pass	Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; noncompliance with rental agreement; payment plan; extend sunset. Extends the sunset date from July 1, 2021, to July 1, 2022, of certain provisions enacted during the 2020 Special Sessi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-31 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492)
VA	HB2132	Pass	Homicides and assaults and bodily woundings; certain matters not to constitute defenses. Provides that another person's actual or perceived sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation is not in and of itself, or together with an oral solicita... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-31 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460)
VA	HB1928	Pass	Historic resources; acquisition and lease of land. Authorizes the Department of Historic Resources and the Board of Historic Resources to undertake additional leasing and property acquisition activities related to battlefield properties, designated l... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-30 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0406)
VA	HB2299	Pass	Department of Education and Board of Education; special education. Requires the Department of Education and the Board of Education to develop new policies and procedures and effect numerous modifications to existing policies and procedures to improve... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-30 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0451)
VA	HB2148	Pass	Small renewable energy projects; energy storage. Includes in the definition of a "small renewable energy project" certain energy storage facilities and projects that include storage facility components. Such facilities are eligible for special permit... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-30 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0419)
VA	HB1818	Pass	Workers' compensation; presumption of compensability for certain diseases. Provides that the occupational disease presumption for death caused by hypertension or heart disease will apply for salaried or volunteer emergency medical services personnel ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-30 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436)
VA	HB2063	Pass	Virginia Overtime Wage Act; penalties. Requires an employer to compensate certain employees at a rate not less than one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay, defined in the bill, for any hours worked in excess of 40 hours in any one ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-30 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0445)
VA	HB2137	Pass	Paid sick leave. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to home health workers who provide personal care, respite, or companion services to an individual who receives consumer-directed services under the state plan for medical assistance servi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-30 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449)
VA	HB2120	Pass	Public institutions of higher education; governing boards; meetings, input, and disclosures. Requires the governing board of each public institution of higher education to establish and maintain on the institution's website (i) a listing of all board... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-30 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447)
VA	HB2014	Pass	Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord remedies; landlord's acceptance of rent with reservation; tenant's right of redemption. Prohibits a landlord from accepting full payment of rent, as well as any damages, money judgment, award of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-30 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0410)
VA	HB2249	Pass	Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; landlord charges for security deposits, insurance premiums for damage insurance, and insurance premiums for renter's insurance; filing of information regarding resident agent appointed by nonresident prop... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-30 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0427)
VA	HB1980	Pass	Enslaved Ancestors College Access Scholarship and Memorial Program established. Establishes the Enslaved Ancestors College Access Scholarship and Memorial Program, whereby Longwood University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth Univers... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-30 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0442)
VA	HB1909	Pass	Certain school board property; establishment of gun-free zone permitted. Permits any school board to deem any non-school zone building or property that it owns or leases where employees of such school board are regularly present for the purpose of pe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-30 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0439)
VA	HB2118	Pass	Electric Vehicle Grant Fund and Program; creation; work group report. Establishes the Electric Vehicle Grant Fund and Program for the purpose of (i) awarding grants on a competitive basis to public school divisions for (a) assisting with costs of rep... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-30 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0418)
VA	HB2204	Pass	Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and Program established. Establishes the Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and requires the Virginia Community College System to establish the G3 Program for the purpose of providing financial ass... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-29 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397)
VA	HB1960	Pass	Vehicle registration; special communication needs indicator. Expands eligibility for a special communication needs indicator on a vehicle registration to vehicle owners whose vehicle is regularly occupied by an individual who has a disability that ca... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358)
VA	HB2266	Pass	Alcoholic beverage control; designated outdoor refreshment area license. Renames the "local special events" license as the "designated outdoor refreshment area" license. The bill allows the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Contro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0390)
VA	HB2304	Pass	Provision of broadband capacity by Phase I or Phase II electric utilities. Makes permanent the pilot program under which a Phase I or Phase II electric utility is permitted to petition the State Corporation Commission to provide broadband capacity to... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0369)
VA	HB1832	Pass	Virginia Highway Corporation Act; alteration of certificate of authority; powers and duties of the State Corporation Commission. Requires any application for a transfer, extension, or amendment of a certificate of authority issued under the Virginia ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0349)
VA	HB2129	Pass	Chesapeake Bay; wastewater treatment; Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program. Requires the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations establishing a Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program (ENRC Pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363)
VA	HB1862	Pass	Employee protections; medicinal use of cannabis oil. Prohibits an employer from discharging, disciplining, or discriminating against an employee for such employee's lawful use of cannabis oil pursuant to a valid written certification issued by a prac... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-03-25 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395)